On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> The portable way to fix this, is to invoke tar twice. Once to get the list
> of files and a second to extract them. This way, you can use any version of
> tar you like. I am not opposed to changing pax to exit with a different error
> code if a file is not found, but I think it is better to be portable.

Probably true... I've sent a patch to tech-pkg that tries to extract only
the +-files that are needed (judging by the options given to pkg_info, not
looking inside the tar-archive).


 - Hubert

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